diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvserver/raft_transport.go b/pkg/kv/kvserver/raft_transport.go
index dc635c65eb3a..5e7c0b896a00 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvserver/raft_transport.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvserver/raft_transport.go
@@ -453,16 +453,6 @@ func (t *RaftTransport) handleRaftRequest(
 			log.Infof(ctx, "informed of below-raft %s", admittedEntries)
 		}
 	}
-	if len(req.AdmittedResponse) > 0 {
-		// NB: we do this via this special path instead of using the
-		// incomingMessageHandler since we don't have a full-fledged
-		// RaftMessageRequest for each range (each of these responses could be for
-		// a different range), and because what we need to do wrt queueing is much
-		// simpler (we don't need to worry about queue size since we only keep the
-		// latest message from each replica).
-		t.kvflowcontrol2.piggybackedResponseScheduler.ScheduleAdmittedResponseForRangeRACv2(
-			ctx, req.AdmittedResponse)
-	}
 	if req.ToReplica.StoreID == roachpb.StoreID(0) && len(req.AdmittedRaftLogEntries) > 0 {
 		// The fallback token dispatch mechanism does not specify a destination
 		// replica, and as such, there's no handler for it. We don't want to
@@ -543,6 +533,16 @@ func (t *RaftTransport) RaftMessageBatch(stream MultiRaft_RaftMessageBatchServer
 					t.kvflowControl.mu.Lock()
 					t.kvflowControl.mu.connectionTracker.markStoresConnected(storeIDs)
 					t.kvflowControl.mu.Unlock()
+					if len(batch.AdmittedStates) != 0 {
+						// TODO(pav-kv): dispatch admitted vectors to RACv2.
+						// NB: we do this via this special path instead of using the
+						// handleRaftRequest path since we don't have a full-fledged
+						// RaftMessageRequest for each range (each of these responses could
+						// be for a different range), and because what we need to do w.r.t.
+						// queueing is much simpler (we don't need to worry about queue size
+						// since we only keep the latest message from each replica).
+						_ = t.kvflowcontrol2.piggybackedResponseScheduler.ScheduleAdmittedResponseForRangeRACv2
+					}
 					if len(batch.Requests) == 0 {
 						continue
 					}
diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvserver/replica_raft.go b/pkg/kv/kvserver/replica_raft.go
index c0551cb5d0cf..2e71729f6ff4 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvserver/replica_raft.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvserver/replica_raft.go
@@ -651,6 +651,11 @@ func (r *Replica) stepRaftGroupRaftMuLocked(req *kvserverpb.RaftMessageRequest)
 					LowPriOverride:  req.LowPriorityOverride,
 				}
 			}
+		case raftpb.MsgAppResp:
+			if req.AdmittedState.Term != 0 {
+				// TODO(pav-kv): dispatch admitted vector to RACv2 if one is attached.
+				_ = 0
+			}
 		}
 		err := raftGroup.Step(req.Message)
 		if errors.Is(err, raft.ErrProposalDropped) {