Ouch.

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow was so seriously injured in Saturday’s playoff loss to the New England Patriots that he probably wouldn’t have been able to play in this weekend’s conference final had the Broncos won, according to news reports.

Tebow suffered torn cartilage where his first rib attaches to his sternum, a bruised lung and fluid buildup in the pleural cavity, the space between the lungs and the membrane that surrounds them, ESPN first reported, citing an NFL source.