diff --git a/snow/consensus/snowman/metrics.go b/snow/consensus/snowman/metrics.go
index 0a436662d5d..160cad253a9 100644
--- a/snow/consensus/snowman/metrics.go
+++ b/snow/consensus/snowman/metrics.go
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ type metrics struct {
 	pollsRejected metric.Averager
 	// rejected tracks the number of nanoseconds that an item was processing
 	// before being rejected
-	latRejected          metric.Averager
-	blockSizeRejectedSum prometheus.Gauge
+	latRejected              metric.Averager
+	blockSizeRejectedSum     prometheus.Gauge
+	unverifiedBlocksRejected prometheus.Counter
 
 	// numFailedPolls keeps track of the number of polls that failed
 	numFailedPolls prometheus.Counter
@@ -152,6 +153,11 @@ func newMetrics(
 			Name:      "blks_rejected_container_size_sum",
 			Help:      "cumulative size of all rejected blocks",
 		}),
+		unverifiedBlocksRejected: prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
+			Namespace: namespace,
+			Name:      "unverified_blks_rejected",
+			Help:      "cumulative size of all rejected blocks",
+		}),
 
 		numSuccessfulPolls: prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
 			Namespace: namespace,
@@ -177,6 +183,7 @@ func newMetrics(
 		reg.Register(m.numProcessing),
 		reg.Register(m.blockSizeAcceptedSum),
 		reg.Register(m.blockSizeRejectedSum),
+		reg.Register(m.unverifiedBlocksRejected),
 		reg.Register(m.numSuccessfulPolls),
 		reg.Register(m.numFailedPolls),
 	)
@@ -224,7 +231,7 @@ func (m *metrics) Accepted(
 	m.blockSizeAcceptedSum.Add(float64(blockSize))
 }
 
-func (m *metrics) Rejected(blkID ids.ID, pollNumber uint64, blockSize int) {
+func (m *metrics) Rejected(blkID ids.ID, verified bool, pollNumber uint64, blockSize int) {
 	start, ok := m.processingBlocks.Get(blkID)
 	if !ok {
 		m.log.Warn("unable to measure latency",
@@ -242,6 +249,10 @@ func (m *metrics) Rejected(blkID ids.ID, pollNumber uint64, blockSize int) {
 	m.latRejected.Observe(float64(duration))
 
 	m.blockSizeRejectedSum.Add(float64(blockSize))
+
+	if !verified {
+		m.unverifiedBlocksRejected.Inc()
+	}
 }
 
 func (m *metrics) MeasureAndGetOldestDuration() time.Duration {
diff --git a/snow/consensus/snowman/topological.go b/snow/consensus/snowman/topological.go
index 3c33b93beb4..5489a276494 100644
--- a/snow/consensus/snowman/topological.go
+++ b/snow/consensus/snowman/topological.go
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func (ts *Topological) Add(ctx context.Context, blk Block) error {
 		if err := blk.Reject(ctx); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		ts.metrics.Rejected(blkID, ts.pollNumber, len(blk.Bytes()))
+		ts.metrics.Rejected(blkID, false, ts.pollNumber, len(blk.Bytes()))
 		return nil
 	}
 
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ func (ts *Topological) tryAcceptPreferredChild(ctx context.Context, blk *snowman
 		if err := sibling.blk.Reject(ctx); err != nil {
 			return false, err
 		}
-		ts.metrics.Rejected(siblingID, ts.pollNumber, len(sibling.blk.Bytes()))
+		ts.metrics.Rejected(siblingID, sibling.verified, ts.pollNumber, len(sibling.blk.Bytes()))
 
 		// Track which blocks have been directly rejected
 		rejects = append(rejects, siblingID)
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ func (ts *Topological) rejectTransitively(ctx context.Context, rejected []ids.ID
 			if err := child.blk.Reject(ctx); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
-			ts.metrics.Rejected(childID, ts.pollNumber, len(child.blk.Bytes()))
+			ts.metrics.Rejected(childID, child.verified, ts.pollNumber, len(child.blk.Bytes()))
 
 			// add the newly rejected block to the end of the stack
 			rejected = append(rejected, childID)
diff --git a/vms/proposervm/pre_fork_block.go b/vms/proposervm/pre_fork_block.go
index 9b2d07e8dae..676abb06c06 100644
--- a/vms/proposervm/pre_fork_block.go
+++ b/vms/proposervm/pre_fork_block.go
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ func (b *preForkBlock) verifyPreForkChild(ctx context.Context, child *preForkBlo
 		zap.String("reason", "parent is an oracle block"),
 		zap.Stringer("blkID", b.ID()),
 	)
-	if err := child.Block.VerifyProposer(ctx); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 	return child.Block.Verify(ctx)
 }