diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d8034087cee..aac1b9396ff 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ replace (
 	k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers => ./staging/src/k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers
 	k8s.io/metrics => ./staging/src/k8s.io/metrics
 	k8s.io/mount-utils => ./staging/src/k8s.io/mount-utils
-	k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api => ./staging/src/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api
 	k8s.io/pod-security-admission => ./staging/src/k8s.io/pod-security-admission
 	k8s.io/sample-apiserver => ./staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver
 	k8s.io/sample-cli-plugin => ./staging/src/k8s.io/sample-cli-plugin
diff --git a/vendor/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api b/vendor/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api
deleted file mode 120000
index 7652a42c09a..00000000000
--- a/vendor/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../staging/src/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 9052b3faa2f..f1189f99613 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -2495,7 +2495,6 @@ sigs.k8s.io/yaml
 # k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers => ./staging/src/k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers
 # k8s.io/metrics => ./staging/src/k8s.io/metrics
 # k8s.io/mount-utils => ./staging/src/k8s.io/mount-utils
-# k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api => ./staging/src/k8s.io/noderesourcetopology-api
 # k8s.io/pod-security-admission => ./staging/src/k8s.io/pod-security-admission
 # k8s.io/sample-apiserver => ./staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver
 # k8s.io/sample-cli-plugin => ./staging/src/k8s.io/sample-cli-plugin