diff --git a/tests/config/draft_model_arch_groundtruth.json b/tests/config/draft_model_arch_groundtruth.json
index dfe6f3d39e93..5ea8136e9bd9 100644
--- a/tests/config/draft_model_arch_groundtruth.json
+++ b/tests/config/draft_model_arch_groundtruth.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
             "EagleDeepSeekMTPModel"
         ],
         "model_type": "eagle",
-        "text_model_type": "deepseek_mtp",
+        "text_model_type": "eagle",
         "hidden_size": 2560,
         "total_num_hidden_layers": 1,
         "total_num_attention_heads": 32,
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
             "EagleLlamaForCausalLM"
         ],
         "model_type": "eagle",
-        "text_model_type": "llama",
+        "text_model_type": "eagle",
         "hidden_size": 4096,
         "total_num_hidden_layers": 1,
         "total_num_attention_heads": 32,
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
             "Eagle3LlamaForCausalLM"
         ],
         "model_type": "eagle",
-        "text_model_type": "llama",
+        "text_model_type": "eagle",
         "hidden_size": 4096,
         "total_num_hidden_layers": 1,
         "total_num_attention_heads": 32,
diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
index da5080fadbb9..a35c34bbf8d6 100644
--- a/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@
 from vllm.config import (
     CompilationConfig,
     ModelConfig,
+    ParallelConfig,
     PoolerConfig,
     SchedulerConfig,
+    SpeculativeConfig,
     VllmConfig,
     update_config,
 )
@@ -1093,3 +1095,23 @@ def test_needs_dp_coordination(
     vllm_config = VllmConfig(model_config=model_config, parallel_config=parallel_config)
 
     assert vllm_config.needs_dp_coordinator == expected_needs_coordinator
+
+
+def test_eagle_draft_model_config():
+    """Test that EagleDraft model config is correctly set."""
+    target_model_config = ModelConfig(
+        "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", trust_remote_code=True
+    )
+    speculative_config = SpeculativeConfig(
+        model="yuhuili/EAGLE-LLaMA3-Instruct-8B",
+        num_speculative_tokens=1,
+        target_model_config=target_model_config,
+        target_parallel_config=ParallelConfig(),
+    )
+    draft_model_config = speculative_config.draft_model_config
+    assert draft_model_config.hf_config.architectures == ["EagleLlamaForCausalLM"]
+    assert draft_model_config.hf_text_config.architectures == ["EagleLlamaForCausalLM"]
+    assert draft_model_config.hf_config.model_type == "eagle"
+    assert draft_model_config.hf_text_config.model_type == "eagle"
+    assert draft_model_config.architectures == ["EagleLlamaForCausalLM"]
+    assert draft_model_config.architecture == "EagleLlamaForCausalLM"
diff --git a/vllm/config/speculative.py b/vllm/config/speculative.py
index e80fa532a2c4..b6170cb12d1c 100644
--- a/vllm/config/speculative.py
+++ b/vllm/config/speculative.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from vllm.config.parallel import ParallelConfig
 from vllm.config.utils import config
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.transformers_utils.config import get_hf_text_config
 from vllm.utils.hashing import safe_hash
 from vllm.utils.import_utils import LazyLoader, has_arctic_inference
 
@@ -399,10 +400,23 @@ def __post_init__(self):
                             method=self.method,
                             model_type="eagle",
                         )
+                        # EAGLEConfig primarily updates architectures, so update
+                        # all architectures-related fields in draft_model_config
                         self.draft_model_config.hf_config = eagle_config
+                        self.draft_model_config.hf_text_config = get_hf_text_config(
+                            self.draft_model_config.hf_config
+                        )
                         self.draft_model_config.model_arch_config = (
                             self.draft_model_config.get_model_arch_config()
                         )
+                        model_info, arch = (
+                            self.draft_model_config.registry.inspect_model_cls(
+                                self.draft_model_config.architectures,
+                                self.draft_model_config,
+                            )
+                        )
+                        self.draft_model_config._model_info = model_info
+                        self.draft_model_config._architecture = arch
 
                 if self.num_speculative_tokens is not None and hasattr(
                     self.draft_model_config.hf_config, "num_lookahead_tokens"
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/model_arch_config_convertor.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/model_arch_config_convertor.py
index dc067a09419b..6df4bb64dceb 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/model_arch_config_convertor.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/model_arch_config_convertor.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def is_deepseek_mla(self) -> bool:
             # underlying architecture
             return (
                 self.hf_text_config.model.model_type
-                in ("deepseek_v2", "deepseek_v3", "deepseek_v32")
+                in ("deepseek_v2", "deepseek_v3", "deepseek_v32", "deepseek_mtp")
                 and self.hf_text_config.kv_lora_rank is not None
             )
         return False