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Vincent Fact: Top tackler in the 2007 spring game with 10 stops.
Years Lettered: 2005,06
Bowl Participation: Reserve linebacker in the 2005 Champs Sports Bowl against Colorado; starting linebacker in the 2006 Music City Bowl against Kentucky.
Fall 2007 Depth Chart Position: First-team middle linebacker
Overview: Winner of the Hustle Award for Clemson's defensive players during the 2006 season...listed as the starting middle linebacker heading into fall practice...has missed just one game in his career, the Wake Forest game in the 2005 season...sixth on the team in the hang clean (360)...top tackler in the spring game with 10 tackles for the Orange team...Shrine Bowl linebacker at Allendale-Fairfax (SC) High School...from the same high school that sent running back Raymond Priester to Clemson; Priester is Clemson's career rushing leader.
2006: Played in 13 games, including two starts against N.C. State and Kentucky in the Music City Bowl; he had four tackles in 49 plays in the bowl game...had four tackles against Temple in 23 plays and four tackles against #13 Georgia Tech in 13 plays...had his only tackle for loss against Temple...had his first career interception against Louisiana Tech...Clemson's special teams player-of-the-week against N.C. State according to the Clemson coaches; he had two special teams tackles in that contest...posted 20 tackles after totaling just six tackles as a freshman...played 27 snaps against Florida Atlantic and totaled three tackles.
2005: Named Subway Sub-of-the-Game by the Clemson radio network for his performance against Duke; he had a sack in 25 plays; it was his only sack of the season...reserve bandit end during most of the season...played 87 snaps on the season, and played in 11 of the 12 games...played on defense in 10 of the 11 contests that he saw action...played a season-high 25 snaps against Duke...played 10 snaps against #13 Miami (FL).
2004: Red-shirted.
Before Clemson: Had over 100 tackles each of his last two seasons at Allendale-Fairfax High School...defensive captain of South Carolina in the Shrine Bowl...team captain as a junior and senior at Allendale-Fairfax High School...all-state selection at linebacker as a junior and senior...had 100 tackles and one interception as a senior and 168 tackles during his junior season...first-team all-state selection as a junior when he also had four sacks and two interceptions...all-area by Orangeburg Times as a senior...All-Mid-Atlantic team member and 20th-best player in South Carolina by SuperPrep...All-Atlantic region pick by PrepStar...attended the same school that sent Clemson career rushing leader Raymond Priester (1994-97)...coached by Carlos Cave...chose Clemson over Maryland, North Carolina, and N.C. State...born Cortney L. Vincent on Nov. 24, 1985...majoring in sociology.
