The Los Angeles Rams will anchor the "60 Minutes" season premiere on Sunday, Sept. 13. The broadcast is the first since CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss overhauled the show's staff.

Correspondent Jon Wertheim will lead the 59th season with interviews with Rams general manager Les Snead, head coach Sean McVay and quarterback Matthew Stafford, the Los Angeles Times reported. The segment will also explore team owner Stan Kroenke's investments in artificial intelligence to help the club gain an edge on the field. The Times noted oddsmakers have the Rams as favorites to win the Super Bowl.

The Rams profile follows a familiar "60 Minutes" playbook. Season premieres often air after late-afternoon NFL games, and the show has leaned on sports segments to capture those audiences.

Last year, Wertheim's profile of UFC chief executive Dana White drew more than 10 million viewers, making it the most-watched non-sports program of the week. In 2023, he interviewed University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders for the season opener. The Sept. 13 broadcast will follow CBS coverage of a Green Bay Packers-Minnesota Vikings game.

The premiere is also the first test of Weiss's reshaped staff. Weiss, founder of the digital news site The Free Press, was hired by Paramount chief executive David Ellison with a mandate to pull CBS News toward the political center. Since taking over in October 2025, she fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and longtime correspondent Scott Pelley.

Alfonsi and Vega both said Weiss pushed them to add right-wing talking points to their stories, according to the Times. Pelley accused Weiss of "murdering" the program and putting "her thumb on the scale" for more favorable coverage of President Trump's administration at a June 1 meeting with management. He was fired with cause. CBS denied the claims.

The firings came after a strong 58th season. Ratings rose 9% over the prior year, and the show averaged 9.1 million viewers, according to The Guardian.

Weiss replaced Simon with screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Nick Bilton, who has no previous TV news experience. New correspondents include Ross Douthat, a conservative New York Times opinion writer; author Sebastian Junger; former CNN and Vice News correspondent Gianna Toboni; and British journalist Trevor Phillips.

Retired "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft, who left the show in 2019 after 30 seasons, told The Guardian he had reservations about the new hires. "I have trouble seeing how they're going to be 60 Minutes correspondents, mainly because nobody really knows what the show's going to look like," Kroft said.

Returning correspondents Wertheim, Norah O'Donnell, Bill Whitaker and Lesley Stahl will remain on the roster. CBS will announce the premiere's two remaining segments the week of Sept. 8, according to the Times.