 Stick together no matter what happens. They're gonna make plays, you know what I'm saying? But at any day, stick together throughout every day, we're gonna make plays. 17 different defensive backs have appeared in a game this season for the Tennessee Titans. That's 17. For secondary coach Anthony Midget and safety's coach Scott Booker, that has meant some serious mixing and matching of personnel. Not only have injuries factored into it, but so do specific schemes and specific skill sets that fit those schemes. Kevin Byrd has been the obvious constant as he had stellar play throughout the season. The other constant will surprise you. It's rookie Nickelback Elijah Mulden. Mulden has factored into both run defense and pass defense. He sure has impressed Byrd with his work. For a guy like him to come in and to play our Nickel position is already tough. You have to do a lot of communication. You have to be able to play linebacker sometimes and also cover like a DB. He's done a great job. But another thing that I think is even better that he's just physical. He'll go in there and throw himself in there with the offensive linemen and go out there and make plays. Buster Screen has been a key addition to the secondary since arriving just over a month ago. But the cornerback who has made the most place this season for the Titans is Christian Folton. In spite of missing four games in October and November, the second year man from LSU has made locking up receivers what his season has been all about. Number one, just last year with the injury that he had. You know, especially being a rookie man, you need those reps. You need to be out there playing games. I think this year having a full off season, he's having a really great year. And I expect him to keep rising up because I mean, I think he's a rising star on this league. Byrd also loves to discuss his running mate at safety, Amani Hooker. Hooker was out of the lineup with injury for the majority of the first half of the season. But as he has gotten back into a groove in recent weeks, Hooker is showing up more and more. Marappolo's gonna throw it. Fires down the middle of the pass. It's in, there it is! Hooker's range and closing speed are two of his best assets and they're becoming more and more evident as we head down the stretch. One thing that's really underrated, obviously he's a great athlete, but he's a really smart player. I think he'll have a super long career in this league because just staying in terms with that he has, great confidence. I'm just happy to see him out here having success because I remember he was drafted as a rookie and he was just playing in little small packages and stuff like that. Now he's taking the full year of being a starter. And then I'll talk to him about, you know, it's different when you're only playing 300, 400 snaps a year, now you're probably gonna play a thousand snaps. Love playing with the money, love playing with it. Another guy that Kevin Byrd loves playing with is 33-year-old Jackrabbit Jenkins. Until an injury at New England, Jenkins had been a rock for the Titans over the season's first three months. Byrd says that Jackrabbit is more than a veteran cornerback. Jenkins also helps his team by bringing a little bit of levity. Just being a locker room, he's a really funny guy. He's always making jokes in the meeting rooms, just been a joy to be around. The Titans have spent the majority of the season without a guy that they hoped would be a big contributor by now, first round draft pick, Caleb Farley. Being a savvy vet, Byrd predicts a big jump for Farley in year two, much like the jump Christian Fulton made from last season to now. The intangibles that he has, I mean, the speed, the size, he has everything that you would want out of a corner. He's fast. I think coming off the injury and stuff like that, he's gonna have a really long off season I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna be talking to him about just understanding to attack in that process, the rehab attack, it just as much as you did when you was coming off of the combine or whatever. You had to make sure that your body and your mind is right because next year I really feel like in the second year, he can really take a huge step and be the guy that they seen when they draft in first round.