Players with NFL experience will have a chance to audition for teams at veterans combine on March 22 at the Arizona Cardinals’ training complex in Phoenix.

NFL director for player development Matt Birk informed all 32 teams on Thursday that the combine will be open to veteran free agents and will include drills, timing and tests similar to the annual NFL combine for draft-eligible players held in late February in Indianapolis.

The veterans combine will take place one day before a league owners meeting in the Phoenix area. About 100 free agents are expected to receive invitations. The NFL’s free agency market opens March 10.

“Naturally, it’ll probably draw more younger players,” Birk said. “But there’s a void there. You come out of college, and there’s a lot of places to go to showcase your talent. There was nothing for that guy out there who has one or two or three years in the league and is not with a team and is at the mercy of when the phone rings or when his agent gets him a workout.

“This will be a forum for these guys to showcase their talents and a service for our clubs instead of (what had been) an inefficient process.”

NFL teams have traditionally brought individual players to their facilities for workouts.

“We also look at it as providing a service to the clubs,” said Birk, a former center for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens. “A lot of times, they fly these free agents in two or three at a time, work them out, all of that. This will allow the teams and those players to be in the same place at once.”

The veterans combine will not include physical exams or extensive personal interviews.

“This will allow teams to get a look at the guys and if they want to dive deeper, they can bring the players in for a physical with their own doctors, and do the interviews,” Birk said. “This is whether the players pass the eye test on the field.”