Sep 11, 2025; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) gestures to referee Brad Rogers (126) after the Packers are called for a penalty during a game against the Washington Commanders at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Tork Mason-USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images Tork Mason-USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images

Hold On: 3 Interesting Facts on Monday’s Chiefs Referee

Originally posted on Kansas City Chiefs on SI
By Zak Gilbert | Last updated Oct 1, 2025 4:00 PM ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – NFL referees aren’t full-time employees. They’re weekend warriors with day jobs during the week.

When the Chiefs visit the Jaguars on Monday Night Football (7:15 p.m. CT, ESPN/ABC, KMBC Ch. 9, 96.5 The fan), their referee is Brad Rogers, whose day job is a senior lecturer in the management school at Texas Tech University.

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Of course, Texas Tech is the alma mater of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. While Mahomes grew up in East Texas and played at Whitehouse High School, Rogers grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and graduated from Lubbock Christian University.

That’s not the only interesting fact with regard to Kansas City’s officiating crew this week.

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Hold your horses

The highest volume of penalties called by Rogers’ crew through three assigned games this season have been offensive holding. And defensive-holding flags rank second on the crew, according to NFLpenalties.com.

That’s significant because three of the league’s top pass-rushers in terms of 2025 total pressure rate will play in Monday’s game: Josh Hines-Allen, George Karlaftis and Chris Jones.

The first update to the True Pressure Rate (TPR) posted yesterday. 643 pressures from the top 45 rushers studied, charted & graded. Look at this as a 'next-level' filter on raw pressures that emphasizes/rewards true 1v1 wins.

Top 32 in TPR

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Also consider that Kansas City’s All-Pro center, Creed Humphrey, committed just one penalty during the entire 2024 season. It was a holding call, flagged by Rogers’ crew in its only Chiefs assignment last year (Kansas City’s 26-13 Monday night win over New Orleans in Week 5).

So far this season, Rogers crew has flagged players 11 times for offensive holding (3.67 per game) and five for defensive holding (1.67 per game).

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And while Jawaan Taylor had his best game in terms of penalties last week, he should be leery. In that New Orleans game last season, Rogers’ crew flagged Taylor twice, once for holding and once for a false start.

Chiefs are undefeated with Rogers

Since Rogers became an NFL white hat in 2019, replacing the retired John Parry, the Chiefs are 5-0 with his crew. In addition to the New Orleans game in 2024, Rogers has also overseen the brutally cold wild-card playoff game against Miami in 2023, a pair of Chiefs wins at Denver (43-16 in 2020 and 28-24 in 2021) and a prior game against the Jaguars.

Incidentally, in that 2022 game against the Jaguars, the Chiefs’ 27-17 victory at Arrowhead Stadium in Week 10, Kansas City was flagged zero times (Jacksonville had five penalties).