diff --git a/nomad/structs/structs.go b/nomad/structs/structs.go
index 14dcc3c94..0e5012193 100644
--- a/nomad/structs/structs.go
+++ b/nomad/structs/structs.go
@@ -9831,17 +9831,13 @@ func (p *Plan) PopUpdate(alloc *Allocation) {
 }
 
 // AppendAlloc appends the alloc to the plan allocations.
-// To save space, it clears the Job field so it can be derived from the plan Job.
-// If keepJob is true, the normalizatin skipped to accommodate cases where a plan
-// needs to support multiple versions of the same job.
-func (p *Plan) AppendAlloc(alloc *Allocation, keepJob bool) {
+// Uses the passed job if explicitly passed, otherwise
+// it is assumed the alloc will use the plan Job version.
+func (p *Plan) AppendAlloc(alloc *Allocation, job *Job) {
 	node := alloc.NodeID
 	existing := p.NodeAllocation[node]
 
-	// Normalize the job
-	if !keepJob {
-		alloc.Job = nil
-	}
+	alloc.Job = job
 
 	p.NodeAllocation[node] = append(existing, alloc)
 }
diff --git a/scheduler/generic_sched.go b/scheduler/generic_sched.go
index bc48dbf5c..ee51fcb6a 100644
--- a/scheduler/generic_sched.go
+++ b/scheduler/generic_sched.go
@@ -388,12 +388,12 @@ func (s *GenericScheduler) computeJobAllocs() error {
 			update.DeploymentID = s.deployment.GetID()
 			update.DeploymentStatus = nil
 		}
-		s.ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(update, false)
+		s.ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(update, nil)
 	}
 
 	// Handle the annotation updates
 	for _, update := range results.attributeUpdates {
-		s.ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(update, false)
+		s.ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(update, nil)
 	}
 
 	// Nothing remaining to do if placement is not required
@@ -601,14 +601,10 @@ func (s *GenericScheduler) computePlacements(destructive, place []placementResul
 					}
 				}
 
-				if downgradedJob != nil {
-					alloc.Job = downgradedJob
-				}
-
 				s.handlePreemptions(option, alloc, missing)
 
 				// Track the placement
-				s.plan.AppendAlloc(alloc, downgradedJob != nil)
+				s.plan.AppendAlloc(alloc, downgradedJob)
 
 			} else {
 				// Lazy initialize the failed map
diff --git a/scheduler/system_sched.go b/scheduler/system_sched.go
index c0fe396b7..f8088b02a 100644
--- a/scheduler/system_sched.go
+++ b/scheduler/system_sched.go
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ func (s *SystemScheduler) computePlacements(place []allocTuple) error {
 			alloc.PreemptedAllocations = preemptedAllocIDs
 		}
 
-		s.plan.AppendAlloc(alloc, false)
+		s.plan.AppendAlloc(alloc, nil)
 	}
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/scheduler/util.go b/scheduler/util.go
index b465efb19..1799ede53 100644
--- a/scheduler/util.go
+++ b/scheduler/util.go
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ func inplaceUpdate(ctx Context, eval *structs.Evaluation, job *structs.Job,
 			},
 		}
 		newAlloc.Metrics = ctx.Metrics()
-		ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(newAlloc, false)
+		ctx.Plan().AppendAlloc(newAlloc, nil)
 
 		// Remove this allocation from the slice
 		doInplace(&i, &n, &inplaceCount)