Dave Birkett

Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Lions will start their eighth different right tackle in the last four seasons on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.

Riley Reiff did not travel to Minnesota because of an undisclosed illness that's kept him out of practice most of the last two weeks, and the Lions ruled him out of Sunday's game.

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Reiff played most of last week's game against the Houston Texans after practicing just one day, but he missed parts of two series while he was ill.

Lions coach Jim Caldwell declined to get into specifics about Reiff's illness, but players said the right tackle was in good spirits while away from the team this week.

Corey Robinson, a seventh-round pick out of South Carolina last year, is expected to start Sunday. Robinson, who missed the last two games with a sprained ankle, has played as the Lions' sixth offensive lineman this year.

"I’ve played next to eight different tackles – well Corey will be my eighth different tackle," right guard Larry Warford said on Friday. "Each one has something different about them, but at the same time we all work together throughout this whole season, went through all OTAs and I think the good thing about this O-line is there’s obviously going to be slight differences in how he plays and how Riley plays, but for the most part it won’t be too different because we’ve been working the same craft for so long."

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Linebacker DeAndre Levy is the only other Lions player who's been ruled out for Sunday.

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