This is the Week 3 referee assignment for the Detroit Lions against the New York Jets at Ford Field on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET.

Brad Rogers has the whistle Sunday. Football Zebras and the assignment feed both put him on the Lions and the Jets. He wears No. 126.

Through 2 games this season the crew has 28 flags for 260 yards. Cleveland at Tampa Bay was 12 flags for 112 yards. Atlanta at Pittsburgh was 16 flags for 148 yards.

In 9 meetings the Lions have been flagged 6.11 times a game. Their own rate in those seasons is 5.98, an index of 102. That is about what they usually draw, not a crackdown. The Jets, in 8 meetings, sit at 5.63 against their own 6.74, an index of 83. He has not been hunting them.

The last Lions game on this log was Week 18 of 2025, Detroit at Chicago. The final was 19 to 16. The crew threw 10 flags for 60 yards. Detroit drew 6 for 35 yards, Chicago 4 for 25. A quiet whistle.

The loud afternoon was Week 13 of 2025, Jacksonville at Tennessee. 23 flags for 184 yards, and the final was 25 to 3. The league rate on that log is 12.63 flags a game. One game, not a habit, and not a claim that the crew led the week.

The foul that shows up is offensive pass interference, 0.46 a game against a league rate of 0.31, an index of 168. False starts go the other way, 1.98 a game against 2.2, an index of 89. If you came in expecting a false-start festival, that is the wrong foul.

Football Zebras marks Bryan Neale, Patrick Turner, Kevin Codey, Joe Blubaugh, David Meslow, and Greg Yette as back with him from last season. Same group under the hat.

As of September 25, 2026.