After missing the round-five win over Adelaide and last week's loss to St Kilda, the Dogs' best and fairest winner completed Wednesday's 90-minute session at Whitten Oval, unlike captain Brad Johnson who failed to train.
“He's right to play,” Eade said of Boyd.
“He was obviously a bit disappointed he couldn't play last week ... he's raring to go.”
Johnson is struggling with groin soreness and looks certain to miss his fourth home and away match this season.
Eade said the Bulldogs might err on the side of caution in regards to their skipper, whose year has already been stalled by an achilles injury and illness.
“He probably won’t play,” Eade said. “He could have trained - may have been able to play - but we thought ‘no, we’re not going to take the risk’ and that’s why he didn’t train today.
“He’s been getting little niggles … but his fitness is pretty good obviously, so from that aspect it’s not too bad.
“We think at worst it’ll only be the one week and he’ll be right the week after.”
Will Minson, Josh Hill and Brennan Stack are all pushing for selection, even though Eade said he had been happy enough with the contribution of second-year ruckman Jordan Roughead.
The Bulldogs trained for close to 90 minutes on Wednesday morning but Eade said the lengthy session - just two days out from the round-seven clash with the Dees - wasn’t punishment after last week’s loss, and more a matter of trying to ensure greater numbers on the training track.
Liam Picken and Callan Ward both jogged laps on Wednesday and while Ward (groin) remains three to four weeks away from resuming in the VFL, Picken is ahead of schedule in his comeback from an ankle injury.
He is likely to start running this weekend and could resume playing within a fortnight.
A 50 per cent winning record and some indifferent form have many believing the Bulldogs have performed below par so far this season.
Eade is not feeling an extra pressure yet, although he conceded the Friday night match against Melbourne is a big one.
“We were 3-3 last year and we’ve played better sides up to this stage,” he said.
“It’s not the end of the world. We certainly would have loved to have had another one on the positive side but I think, as it’s shown so far, it’s going to be a very even competition and sides are going to knock each other off.
“You know there’s not going to be many [teams] really languishing down the bottom, if at all, so we’ve just got to hang in there and we’ve just got to scrounge a win on Friday night.”
