diff --git a/axum/Cargo.toml b/axum/Cargo.toml
index 2b12e12a..6b97386c 100644
--- a/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ serde = "1.0"
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
 sync_wrapper = "0.1.1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["time"] }
-tokio-util = "0.6"
 tower = { version = "0.4.11", default-features = false, features = ["util", "buffer", "make"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["util", "map-response-body"] }
 tower-layer = "0.3"