Can you actually drown in waders?

Depends on how naturally buoyant (Fat) you are. I wouldn't want to try to tread water with wader boots on

I feel like someone made a video jumping in a pool with different types of waders.

All floated.

You absolutely can - it happened to a friend of mine years ago. He stepped in a pot hole and his waders filled up.

I guess this is in reference to the grad student who drowned recently, South Dakota or Utah maybe?
Can you drown in the summer in a pool with waders probably not.
Can you drown in cold water when it hits you and takes your breath away and you try to not loose your gun or reach for you phone to keep it dry and then loose your footing and start getting tangled up in limbs and shite!!?? Yeah you most definitely can.
I have seen people panic and almost drown in waist deep water where people were hollering at them “stand up MFr stand up”

Flipped my boat on a stump in Felsenthal NWR in Arkansas wearing waders in the ever evolving quest to kill Mallard ducks in 1995. No Q-Beam. Hence the reason we hit a stump. No kill switch either. No life jacket. Probably made every mistake you could make to drown, but God was looking out for us that day. We were wearing the old school Hodgemans. Obviously filled slap up with water however they formed a huge air pocket though around the waist making my feet raise a little. Also was staring at a running motor with a turning prop until it died. That water was absolutely frigid. That in itself will make you go mind numb. I was able to pull myself on top of the boat but it took some effort but I doubt I would have drowned because the air bubble but it would have made for some awkward swimming if the boat would have stayed upright and motored off.

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Can you actually drown in waders?

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the key to it is going underwater and they fill up

you cant get back to the surface or tred water with waders on full of water, so you have to take them off before you run out of air.

in a panic situation like stepping in a hole, you dont have much air to begin with and you need to think and act fast to live

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What?

They weigh the same.

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go jump in a pool and try to swim with them on.

its not about the weight, it keeps you from tredding water or swimming

I got thrown from boat a couple years ago on MLK day in Muck boots. They suck to try and swim with on and I tried a couple times to get them off without success.

I had a friend that flipped his pirogue in a Josephs Bayou after a hunt. Him panicking almost cost him his life. Was able to settle him down and he finally calmed down enough to grab a sack of decoys and then just lay back and let his feet float. It was a pretty scary ordeal. Almost had to hit him with my paddle to keep him from flipping me. I backed away from him and noticed his shotgun was still in his pirogue and went to grabbed it. He yells "frick the gun, save me first!".

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Let’s say you fell out of a boat with them on. Take them off.

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That's good in theory but the split second you hit that cold arse water the brain does some very weird shite. I think the biggest factor will be if you are wearing a life jacket or not. I will never, let me make it clear, NEVER get in a boat now without one. Plus, and I promise you this might have cost me my life as well in my situation if I didn't have a flipped boat to pull myself out of the water on is all the camo clothing you have on becomes totally water-logged and it is like swimming with dead weight. And you absolutely aren't treading water with waders on unless you are Michael Phelps.