Vodney Cleveland holds the NT · Depth spot in North Carolina Tar Heels’s defensive tackle room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Vodney Cleveland is a 6'3", 320-pound nose tackle from Montgomery, Alabama, who attended Parker High School under head coach Frank Warren. As a junior in 2024, he won a state championship and recorded 50 tackles with 10 tackles for loss and seven sacks. In his senior season, Parker finished 8-4 before falling in the second round of playoffs, and Cleveland tallied 37 tackles including 20 solo stops. He was selected as an Army Bowl All-Star and participated in the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game in 2025. Cleveland currently is a true freshman at North Carolina.

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