diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FieldFetcher.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FieldFetcher.java
index b8848b2883593..4f1d24e6d6d9c 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FieldFetcher.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FieldFetcher.java
@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ public static FieldFetcher create(
 
             for (String field : context.getMatchingFieldNames(fieldPattern)) {
                 MappedFieldType ft = context.getFieldType(field);
-                // NOTE: fields that are not allowed for security reasons behave as if they are unmapped.
-                // In that case we do not expect to return values for those fields so the ValueFetcher
-                // is not needed.
-                if (ft == null) {
-                    continue;
-                }
                 if ("_size".equals(field) && includeSizeMetadataField == false) {
                     continue;
                 }