diff --git a/lib/datadog/tracing/contrib/ethon/easy_patch.rb b/lib/datadog/tracing/contrib/ethon/easy_patch.rb
index 3c274b8968..8399cc8deb 100644
--- a/lib/datadog/tracing/contrib/ethon/easy_patch.rb
+++ b/lib/datadog/tracing/contrib/ethon/easy_patch.rb
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def datadog_before_request(continue_from: nil)
                 datadog_trace.sampling_priority = Tracing::Sampling::Ext::Priority::AUTO_REJECT
               end
 
-              unless Tracing::Distributed::Helpers.should_skip_distributed_tracing?(datadog_configuration, trace: trace)
+              unless Tracing::Distributed::Helpers.should_skip_distributed_tracing?(datadog_configuration, trace: datadog_trace)
                 @datadog_original_headers ||= {}
                 Contrib::HTTP.inject(datadog_trace, @datadog_original_headers)
                 self.headers = @datadog_original_headers