In regards to their availability this week, Jeff Fisher said Monday, he was "very encouraged right now" with where they are. The Titans finished the win over the Ravens with only five defensive linemen, and at one point in the game, were down to four when Albert Haynesworth was out for a time.

Vanden Bosch has been an ironman for the Titans since signing with Tennessee in 2005. He has made 53 consecutive regular-season starts, plus one in the playoffs.

--Who could have guessed that DE Jevon Kearse would emerge as the healthiest member of the Titans front four through the first six weeks of the NFL season? When the Titans re-signed Kearse in March, there were questions galore about his exit from Philadelphia where he had suffered a knee injury in 2006 and was eventually benched in 2007. But with the other three starters on the d-line banged up, Kearse has managed to stay healthy and relatively productive thus far.

"I've been playing around 40 to 45 snaps a game, which is pretty decent," Kearse said. "They'd probably want me to play a little less but I don't think I can do that. I want to jump out there as much as I can, just to get better."

He has 17 tackles and 1.5 sacks, but Fisher said his value to the defense goes beyond the numbers.

"There's gap fit responsibilities. There's contain responsibilities," Fisher said. "He'll flatten out on bootlegs and force the quarterback to throw the ball out of bounds. And guess what? We don't see a bootleg the rest of the day. You don't see that, but we see that. So there's a lot of those hidden things that he's doing for us right now, well above and beyond the sack numbers and the hurries and the hits that are contributing to the success of our defense."