If I read right, you have already been starting/running the engine since the filter swap, right ??
These old engines always have self-bled themselves; in fact, the old 6.9s are about the easiest self-bleeders out there.
As soon as the engine fires and runs a few seconds, NO MORE AIR is in there to be bled out, UNLESS you have an air-intrusion, which in that case, if it sits for a couple days, the fuel will drain back on account of the air-leak, and then it will be hard to start all over again.
I have ran my old 6.9 completely dry of fuel, on a number of occassions when maybe I forgot to switch tanks; I never ever had to crack any lines or mess with the Schraeder; in fact, the Schraeder has never been messed with since 1985.
Ten to twenty seconds of cranking and away she goes.