diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/config/wrappers/wrapperUtils.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/config/wrappers/wrapperUtils.ts
index a66b4ee7c452..feca9cf4adb7 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/config/wrappers/wrapperUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/config/wrappers/wrapperUtils.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+import { captureException } from '@sentry/core';
 import { getActiveTransaction } from '@sentry/tracing';
+import { Span } from '@sentry/types';
 
 import { DataFetchingFunction } from './types';
 
@@ -31,11 +33,7 @@ export async function wrapperCore<T extends DataFetchingFunction>(
     // route's transaction
     const span = transaction.startChild({ op: 'nextjs.data', description: `${wrappedFunctionName} (${route})` });
 
-    // TODO: Can't figure out how to tell TS that the types are correlated - that a `GSPropsFunction` will only get passed
-    // `GSPropsContext` and never, say, `GSSPContext`. That's what wrapping everything in objects and using the generic
-    // and pulling the types from the generic rather than specifying them directly was supposed to do, but... no luck.
-    // eslint-disable-next-line prefer-const, @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-    const props = await (origFunction as any)(context);
+    const props = await callOriginal(origFunction, context, span);
 
     span.finish();
 
@@ -43,5 +41,25 @@ export async function wrapperCore<T extends DataFetchingFunction>(
   }
 
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-  return (origFunction as any)(context);
+  return callOriginal(origFunction, context);
+}
+
+/** Call the original function, capturing any errors and finishing the span (if any) in case of error */
+async function callOriginal<T extends DataFetchingFunction>(
+  origFunction: T['fn'],
+  context: T['context'],
+  span?: Span,
+): Promise<T['result']> {
+  try {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line prefer-const, @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    return (origFunction as any)(context);
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (span) {
+      span.finish();
+    }
+
+    // TODO Copy more robust error handling over from `withSentry`
+    captureException(err);
+    throw err;
+  }
 }