No way you should take a QB first overall as there is not much of a difference between #1 and a #5, and none of them would be an immediate upgrade over Cassell/Quinn. Try free agency, pick up a 2nd rounder, have a competition, see what sticks.
IMO if you're in KC's situation with no clear answer at QB, model your rebuild after Seattle, San Francisco, or Denver. Have a clear vision for your team and turn your whole roster over. Start in the trenches, defense, and your run game. Run the tires off Jamaal Charles, make defense the identity of your team playing blue-collar hard-hitting football with attitude ... a style that will resonate with your fanbase, and only ask Cassell to be Alex Smith. I imagine Reid switches this team to the 4-3 and there are some solid mid-first 3 techs that could be big in Richardson, Short, Floyd. I don't know much about KC's personnel on defense other than that they have some talent in the secondary, but bring in some stop-gap veterans in Free Agency if you switch to the 4-3 and start adding talent on the DL through the draft, something Reid did almost every year in Philadelphia.
If they can trade back to around 5-10, maybe get a 2nd rounder out of it, go LT, DT, QB to develop for a year or two a la Kaepernick. Once he goes in in a year or two, he'll take the reins of a team that could win games with even Tebow back there.
IMO if you're in KC's situation with no clear answer at QB, model your rebuild after Seattle, San Francisco, or Denver. Have a clear vision for your team and turn your whole roster over. Start in the trenches, defense, and your run game. Run the tires off Jamaal Charles, make defense the identity of your team playing blue-collar hard-hitting football with attitude ... a style that will resonate with your fanbase, and only ask Cassell to be Alex Smith. I imagine Reid switches this team to the 4-3 and there are some solid mid-first 3 techs that could be big in Richardson, Short, Floyd. I don't know much about KC's personnel on defense other than that they have some talent in the secondary, but bring in some stop-gap veterans in Free Agency if you switch to the 4-3 and start adding talent on the DL through the draft, something Reid did almost every year in Philadelphia.
If they can trade back to around 5-10, maybe get a 2nd rounder out of it, go LT, DT, QB to develop for a year or two a la Kaepernick. Once he goes in in a year or two, he'll take the reins of a team that could win games with even Tebow back there.