"Survivor 49" player was hit by a car on day leaving for the show Dalton RossAugust 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM Robert Voets/CBS The cast of 'Survivor 49' Everyone thinks they are going to win Survivor when they show up on the sandy shores of Fiji to do battle.
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Dalton RossAugust 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The cast of 'Survivor 49'
Everyone thinks they are going to win Survivor when they show up on the sandy shores of Fiji to do battle. After all, you have to manifest victory to achieve victory. But the contestants of Survivor 49 (which premieres Sept. 24 on CBS) had some particularly compelling arguments when we spoke with them on location the day before filming began.
That includes the player who was hit by a car on the day he left for Fiji. While that would seem to be an absolutely terrible omen for his chances in the game, a celebrity Survivor sighting at the scene of the crime turned that frown upside down and left him feeling a million dollars richer.
Here's what the entire cast told Entertainment Weekly about why they were destined to become the Sole Survivor.
Jason Treul
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Jason Treul on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win because I think I'm just such a small, unassuming, goofy, little kid. I feel like I'm always pegged as younger than I am and a little more naive than I am, but truth of the matter is that I was a software engineer that went to Google. I'm valedictorian in my class, got a full ride to law school, I'm going to be an attorney. I'm going to be the type of attorney that Survivor players should be afraid of, not the sort of real estate transactional ones that people are hiding. I'm actually the dude in the court. I think that people are not going to see that. They're just going to look at this kind of small, scraggly dude with glasses and just think he's an extra vote in their bag, but I have way more.
Savannah Louie
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Savannah Louie on 'Survivor 49'
I initially applied for the show when I was 17 years old. I'll let you do the math. But I genuinely thought I was going to get on when I was 17, and I was devastated when I did not. Back then I thought I had what it took. I thought I was smart enough, I thought I was physical enough, I thought I was savvy enough. Now, all my years later, I look back and I realize I sure as hell would not have won that season.
And I look at myself now and everything that I've gone through from crazy work situations to insane travels to all sorts of other life experiences that I feel like have taught me the skills that I need to win this game on a social level. I've seen almost every season of the show. So I know that strategy and I think I'll do okay physically. I'm not the strongest person on this beach, we'll be real, but I think I have what it takes to kick a lot of butts out there.
Jake Latimer
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Jake Latimer on 'Survivor 49'
I will win because of my people skills coming from the job that I have right now in law enforcement. As a correctional officer, I have to be able to read people before they do something stupid, just for my personal safety. So I can use that same thing in this game and read people before they stab me in the back.
Sophie Segreti
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Sophie Segreti on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win Survivor 49 because I have an incredible drive and chip on my shoulder right now. I was an alternate for 48, and I'm coming back for blood. A lot of times when things get really tough out here, as they will, I have this deep well of, not resentment, but just a thirst to really prove to myself that I have it in me to win. And I've waited now a full year of being on the ice and feeling like I wasn't good enough to play Survivor, and I'm here to prove that wrong.
The other thing is I am really great with people and I'm good at reading people and also being a little bit of a chameleon to read the room and adapt myself to those different situations. I don't really consider myself a super corporate person, but I've worked really corporate jobs fit into very corporate spaces, and I've also fit into a business school party environment. So between work and school, I have a lot of practice of fitting in and being just likable enough in certain situations. And sometimes that's all you need to make enough connections and alliances. So my people skills and then the fact that I have this really deep, strong steadfast desire to win and prove myself will make me win 49.
Jeremiah Ing
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Jeremiah Ing on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win Survivor 49 because the day that I was flying out, I got hit by a car. And I asked the universe to give me a sign, and Venus from season 46 walked right past me. I didn't say anything because of my NDA [non-disclosure agreement] and I wanted to say so much to her, and she looked at me with her beautiful brown eyes and I'm like, "I'm going to message you one day, but give me a little bit of time."
Annie Davis
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Annie Davis on 'Survivor 49'
I've never quit anything in my entire life, and I do not intend to start now. I love this thing. I think I've got the resilience. I can stick through anything. I've been through a million crazy physical adventures and mental toughness things, and I think I'm the one. I'm excited.
Rizo Velovic
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Rizo Velovic on 'Survivor 49'
As someone that's truly a student of the game, Survivor isn't as easy as "I have the grit, I have the toughness, I have the mental capacity." There's a lot more that goes into it. Survivor takes a lot of adaptability and it takes a lot of heart. And I think with my upbringing — being the oldest of two from an Albanian immigrant household and being the first Albanian representative to ever play this game in 49 seasons — it's something I have in terms of a badge of honor and something I'm going to take with me into this game.
And that kind of plays into the fact that I truly have the heart, I truly have the adaptability, and I have the true test to wanting to win this game. Not because I want the crown of Sole Survivor. I'm not only chasing the crown of Sole Survivor, I'm chasing the crown of being one of the greatest of all time. Truthfully, I love this game and one of my life mottos is: If you're going to dream big, dream bigger. And why just want to be the winner of this game? I want to be considered one of the greats to ever play this game. So that's why I'm chasing and that's why I think I'm going to win Survivor 49.
Kristina Mills
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Kristina Mills on 'Survivor 49'
I am a very social player. I am an engineer, so I have a strategic mindset. I'm going to know everything that's happening around me because people confide in me a lot. And so at the end of the day, I'm just really good in all different areas.
Alex Moore
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Alex Moore on 'Survivor 49'
I am going to win Survivor 49 because I'm the person that people can't live without. So much of my life is being that glue guy, being that connector and really being people's therapists. I work on Capitol Hill, where it's just extremely stressful, and I'm the person people can go to for a joke. I'm the person people can go to for information or more serious conversations.
And so I'm going to transfer that here in the sense of everyone's going to want me around, they're going to confide in me, they're going to need me to console them when they're missing home, that type of thing. And so I'm going to have these deep interpersonal relationships with each one of my tribemates where it's going to get me to the end and no one's going to see it coming.
Michelle "MC" Chukwujekwu
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Michelle 'MC' Chukwujekwu on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win Survivor 49 because I'm adaptable, and that's the biggest thing that you need in a game like Survivor. In my life, I've always had to adapt. I moved from Texas to California by myself. Didn't know anybody, no job lined up, and it is just a figure-it-out attitude and mentality. And that's what you need in Survivor as well. I'll be everybody's best friend, but also be cutthroat when I need to because I'm motivated by the money.
Matt Williams
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Matt Williams on 'Survivor 49'
I'm the kind of guy who sets my sights on something and I make it happen, and I've decided this is what I want to do. I'm going to make it happen. I'm on the island. I'm more than halfway there. I'm not going to stop. Nothing's going to get in my way.
Sophi Balerdi
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Sophi Balerdi on 'Survivor 49'
I've been watching since I was seven, so I've had dreams of how I'm going to play for 20 years, and I'm going to go balls to the wall here. I'm going to leave everything on the table — blood, sweat, tears, everything that I got in me… which is not a lot. I'm five-foot-two, 110 pounds. But it's enough, I think, to get me to the end, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do everything it takes.
Jawan Pitts
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Jawan Pitts on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win because I'm the perfect blend between book smart and street smart. I'm a nerd. I look like a nerd, but going to school was my way out of my small town. As a Black man growing up in south Jersey, it was like a food desert. Not a lot of resources, not just for food, but for jobs. So for me as a Black nerd, I was like, "All right, education is my way out. I can't shoot a basketball, I can't throw a football."
So that was my thing. I really stuck to education and I got out. I went to Rutgers University. I graduated with almost a 4.0, not to brag, but then, once I graduated in 2020, the world kind of stopped and I was like, "Dang, now I have a choice. I can either stay in my small town or I can take this leap of faith to L.A." So basically, why I will win is because I feel like I'm willing to take risks. I'm willing to do what I need to do to make sure me and my family are okay. So I'm going to do that out here, too.
Nicole Mazullo
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Nicole Mazullo on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win because I have everything it takes. I am an amazing people person. I know how to read people. I know how to communicate with people. I know how to make them feel valued, understood, and most of all, I know how to make them laugh. And when people are laughing, they're not thinking — they're just being intrinsically themselves and they're enjoying the moment.
I'm also smart. I am strategic, I am good with numbers, and I know how to utilize both of those skill sets in whatever capacity necessary and at whatever time. It's all about timing. So I'm going to go out there and give it my all, and I know that I'm going to come home with the cash.
Nate Moore
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Nate Moore on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win Survivor 49 because I am very good with people. But I'm also, surprisingly, physically very capable, and I know how to navigate the relationships that are going to get me to the end and put the people on the jury that would vote to give me $1 million dollars.
Shannon Fairweather
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Shannon Fairweather on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to play with my heart. I'm going to play with my intuition. I'm this mix of this girl from Boston who's very driven to entrepreneurial parents who took the things that they love to do in life and made it their business. I have this drive as the oldest only daughter, a Virgo. I'm very organized and detail focused. I was class president in high school, I was dance team captain. I've started five different companies. I'm very driven. I know how to get things done. But I have this other side of me, which is very spiritual.
Steven Ramm
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Steven Ramm on 'Survivor 49'
I'm going to win Survivor 49 because I am probably the most well-rounded player out here. I bring a very unique blend of left brain and right brain traits together that I don't think many people possess. I am a rocket scientist by day, but I like to joke that I'm a rocket scientist by day and a rock star by night because I've been making music for my entire life.
Sage Ahrens-Nichols
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Sage Ahrens-Nichols on 'Survivor 49'
It's all about the vibes, and I really have been honing into intuition and something in my gut has just been telling me for a couple months now that this is mine.
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