The famous jumper was not worn this year after Fevola's sensational departure from Visy Park following the 2009 season.
The No.25, also worn by club legend Alex Jesaulenko, carries with it the burden of expectation but Mitchell, taken with the 42nd overall pick at the recent NAB AFL Draft, was unfazed when he was presented to the media along with the rest of the club's draftees on Wednesday.
"Any number at the club [is fine]. I would have been happy with anything," Mitchell said.
"I'm just stoked that I'm here."
Mitchell booted five goals in the Calder Cannons' TAC Cup Grand Final win after a shoulder injury in a pre-season game soured his under-18 year.
While he will wear the same number as Fevola, Mitchell said there were few other similarities.
"We're both forwards and both like to kick goals, but that's about it," Mitchell said.
"I'm just going to try and hang around people like Lachie Henderson and see how they go about it."
The Blues stocked up on talls at this year's draft with defenders Matthew Watson (pick 18), Patrick McCarthy (34) and Andrew McInnes (67) all over 191cm with mature-aged pick Nicholas Duigan (70) the only exception.
National recruiting manager Wayne Hughes admitted the club had gone in with a tall strategy.
"Last year we obviously lost Fev very late in the whole process and we probably hadn't scheduled to be finding a key forward," Hughes said.
"But that's the way it unfolded so we've had that in mind a bit this year and obviously Hendo came in as part of the Fev exchange and Luke, we think, will play that role as well."
While he was delighted with the quality of his draft haul, Hughes was quick to hose down expectations in terms of any of the five making an impact at senior level next season.
"History tells you that talls take a longer period of time [to develop]," he said.
Both Watson and McCarthy were named in the All Australian U18 side following stellar NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, with Watson, who already tips the scales at 101kg, keen to put himself in a position to make his AFL debut.
"I know I've got a lot of improving to do," Watson said.
"It's a big jump from the TAC Cup to AFL level so I've just got to get the fitness to the right level and develop my football and I reckon I'll be able to hopefully get a game next year."
At 26 years old, Duigan certainly hopes to have an immediate impact after foregoing the opportunity to join his partner on an aid mission in Africa.
"If I hadn't been drafted [on Thursday] I would have been on a flight on Friday morning over to Perth and then on to Uganda," Duigan said.
"There was a village about 50km out of the capital that we would have been working in with some kids in an orphanage ... then after a month or so we would have gone to Kenya and spent three months there in a HIV testing clinic."
Duigan cited a major hip injury when he first reached draft age as one of the major reasons for his late entry to the elite level which saw him become the 2000th player ever selected at the national draft.
"I'm expecting a plaque from Andrew Demetriou or something," he joked.
"I knew that if I was going to be drafted it was going to be with Carlton's last pick, but I was hoping it would slide by a little more unnoticed than it was."
